Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 25 “ What can be shown cannot be said.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein   Triggered by  Hartmut Esslinger 's comment on Apple's "Liquid Glass" UI. From the  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy : Wittgenstein does not, however, relegate all that is not inside the bounds of sense to oblivion. He makes a distinction between saying and showing which is made to do additional crucial work. “What can be shown cannot be said,” that is, what cannot be formulated in sayable (sensical) propositions can only be shown. This applies, for example, to the logical form of the world, the pictorial form, etc., which show themselves in the form of (contingent) propositions, in the symbolism, and in logical propositions. Even the unsayable (metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic) propositions of philosophy belong in this group—which Wittgenstein finally describes as “things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical”. “ Was gezeigt werden...

Quote of the Week 19 “ Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.” ―  Robert Plant,  Stairway to Heaven lyrics Picture and explanation below created with X/Grok3: The phrase "Stairway to Heaven" carries a double meaning, rooted in both its literal imagery and its symbolic or metaphorical interpretations, particularly when viewed through the lens of the famous Led Zeppelin song released in 1971, as well as its broader cultural and spiritual connotations. Literal and Spiritual Meaning : On one level, "Stairway to Heaven" evokes a direct image of a celestial ascent, often tied to religious or spiritual ideas. It can be seen as a reference to Jacob’s Ladder from the Bible (Genesis 28:10-19), where Jacob dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven with angels ascending and descending, symbolizing a connection between Earth and the divine. In this sense, the "stairway" represents a pathway to enlightenment, salvation, or the afterlife—a journey toward a higher...

Quote of the Week 47 " Words are invitations to learn abstract categories. " ― Lisa Feldman Barrett As stated in the " Surprising Truths about the Human Brain " episode (at 1h:15m) of The Psychology Podcast . Possibly paraphrasing " Words are invitations to learn about categories " by  Sandra Waxman   and  William Thompson.

Quote of the Week 10 "The limits of my language means the limits of my world." ― Ludwig Wittgenstein   Triggered by the citation in a recent Microsoft Research paper: " Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models ". "Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt."  Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung ( Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ),  Satz 5.6 [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 2 " You shall know a word by the company it keeps." ―  John Rupert Firth Cited in countless publications on Natural Language Processing (NLP) including  Christopher Manning's Stanford 2022 " Lecture 1: Introduction and Word Vectors " (slide #18).